(n.) The state of being a woman or of possessing full womanly powers; womanhood; -- correlate of virility.
(n.) Hence: Effeminancy; softness.
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Womanhood
Definition:
(n.) The state of being a woman; the distinguishing character or qualities of a woman, or of womankind.
(n.) Women, collectively; womankind.
Example Sentences:
(1) After failing to get elected in 2005, she was made a peer in 2007, and became a Tory role model for emancipated modern Muslim womanhood.
(2) Since black womanhood is apparently all in the look, our society would rather have white, former Disney pop stars twerk , talentless celebrities with enlarged backsides and their equally talentless siblings with swollen lips than celebrate the black woman’s form with the person who carries it.
(3) Rachel Dolezal may have perfected her performance of black womanhood, and she may be connected to black communities and feel an affinity with the styles and cultural innovations of black people.
(4) Or, as Benilde Little says in her essay Michelle in High Cotton: “She [is] part of my tribe.” The 16 writers in this book, including Ava DuVernay, Damon Young, Roxane Gay and another black first lady, Chirlane McCray, in personal, critical and conversational essays revel in what it means for Michelle to have been “first” – and with that milestone, a symbol of black womanhood, interpreted infinite ways.
(5) Circumcision in Maasai culture marks the transition from girlhood to womanhood, so in order to encourage people to move away from female genital cutting we have developed an alternative rite of passage, in which the girl experiences all the elements of the ceremony but is not cut.
(6) Dolezal’s specious claims to black ancestry and faux black identity could not have been sustained and she would not have been able to pass if black womanhood were seen and understood as more than skin – or weave – deep.
(7) Sadly for any potential babe-botherers out there, the film is actually a dispassionate coming-of-age indie flick set in a washed-out town on the west coast of Sweden, where two teenage girls attempt to navigate the psychological minefield of those strange years just before womanhood.
(8) Female solidarity, in which womanhood alone is the high ace in victimhood poker, is often seen as the most important thing.
(9) The very diverse glories in 2013, to judge from the 93 varieties of womanhood in Project Bush.
(10) Public health was then seen as compatible with the ideology of womanhood, a legitimate way for middle-class women to participate in public life.
(11) But from experience, I suspect that unless I camp overnight to get a good spot at the front, the women’s march on Washington will be less a wonderful, uplifting celebration of womanhood, than five hours of shouting, “What did she say?” to the woman standing next to me and a lot of anxiety about where to go to the toilet.
(12) To explore the meaning of caring for nursing, it is necessary to identify the terms of the relationship between caring and womanhood as these bonds have been formed over the last century.
(13) An acidic satire on the madness of 1950s America and the impossibility of living up to its contradictory ideals of womanhood, The Bell Jar is a much funnier book than its reputation as the favourite novel of morbidly self-obsessed adolescent girls suggests.
(14) You could build a towering, gleaming tribute to womanhood.
(15) "Except that Peter Pan's search for a mother is pretty reasonable whereas Bobby's idealising of womanhood is not.
(16) This was not the vision of womanhood for which Billie Jean King took to the court against Riggs.
(17) I fail to see how anyone could think she is the best and sole representative of 2,000 years of British womanhood.
(18) At a glance, women's magazines in your local newsagent will show you a white-centric display of desirable womanhood, with hair that is sleek, glossy, long and ultimately straight.
(19) When I was six, all I wanted was to be a princess, but despite their popularity in the playground, my parents made a concerted effort to temper every Disney cartoon with a more positive portrayal of womanhood.
(20) A t a recent international conference in the Moroccan city of Casablanca, a light was shed on to the practice of initiation ceremonies in which girls as young as eight are coerced to attend customary rites that “teach” them to please a man in bed as part of the preparation for womanhood.